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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Miley Cyrus Thinks She Was Lil Kim In Past Life?Uh, Lil Kim?s Not Dead

Miley Cyrus Thinks She Was Lil Kim In Past Life…Uh, Lil Kim’s Not Dead

Miley Cyrus said she's Lil Kim in past life? Miley Cyrus believes she was Lil Kim in a past life, despite the fact the rapper is still alive and kicking. The “We Can’t Stop Us” singer’s seems to be a little confused about reincarnation, the concept that states after death the soul starts a new life in a new body. Miley apparently believes she ...

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Source: http://stupidcelebrities.net/2013/07/miley-cyrus-thinks-she-was-lil-kim-in-past-life-uh-lil-kims-not-dead/

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ClinkleLeaks: Secrets Behind 22-Year-Old's $25 Million App Revealed

Josh Duplan, age 22, just banked $25 million for an app no one really knows much about. Well, a few do: his investors, and a tipster who leaked us some very interesting details about the clandestine wallet app. Does the world need a new way for Yale kids to buy things?

Our source says he, like Duplan, is a young Stanford grad who remembers Dunlap for a notorious class presentation in which he channeled Steve Jobs to a T?even capping off with a one more thing reveal. But the Stanford tipster says he's got Clinkle revelations of his own after downloading a pre-release copy of the app when it was temporarily available online?a download he says shows how Clinkle works and where it might be headed.

So what the hell does it do, besides something vaguely PayPally?

Based on what?s in the app, the following features seem to be a lock for Clinkle

"Wallet" feature - this looks approximately like a paypal balance (will let you pay your friends, etc)
"Credit Card" feature - scan a credit card with your phone (it uses card.io to do this)
A Scott Forstall-esque, completely useless bound leather wallet look to polish it off
Ability to pay stores (who they are partnering with)

Like I said last time, this sounds, at best, like a composite of Other Apps That Already Exist and Do Just Fine.

But what about that secret method of transferring money with high-frequency sound? The one TechCrunch willingly redacted from its post because Clinkle didn't want people to read about it? Maybe that's the $25 million feature?

Our tipster thinks he knows:

Clinkle lets you do phone to phone payments via ultrasound exchanged on the phone. This is branded as "Aerolink"

My additional suspicions:

Clinkle may be partnering with Verifone to get the terminals to emit / receive the same audio signals that they're using for payment information. Looking up specs on Verifone terminals , it seems to indicate that they support audio output. Clinkle may be using this to localize the phone to the point of sale terminal. Then, they would send money to Verifone ... I'm basing this on Lucas's past discussions of working with Verifone on SMS based payments (this is before Clinkle was doing the whole ultrasound thing, they initially were a sms based payments system for dumb phones).

Translation: Clinkle would make your phone beep like a dog whistle that only special cash registers could hear?encoded in this whistle signal would be MONEY, so you could buy a bag of chips or textbook without ever touching a debit card. Partnering with VeriFone would make sense, as they're already in the business of outfitting stores with wireless purchase gear. Aerolink! At the very least that's a fun word to say. So is "Yale": more buried code in the app leak show a Facebook-esque plan to launch at top tier schools, and maybe expand to the proles from there:

Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Based on our understanding of their tech, they would probably outfit campus retailers with Clinkle and then drive student adoption through incentives...It seems pretty clear Clinkle is going to try to target itself as a pay-ahead-skip-the-line type operation.

Kids love digital exclusion. So an app premised on the appeal of Ivy League kids cutting the line to buy things ahead of everyone else?that might just be a $25 million hit.

Source: http://valleywag.gawker.com/clinkleleaks-secrets-behind-22-year-olds-25-million-646294646

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Is Discovering Global Warming Our Greatest Scientific Achievement?

There are some very smart people on this planet we call Earth and they've all done some very smart things to help us understand the world better. Isaac Newton. Charles Darwin. Albert Einstein. No name scientists. Commenters of the Internet. We have them to thank. But of all the discoveries and accomplishments, is finding out about global warming mankind's greatest scientific achievement?

Packed With Real-Time Data, Fantasy Trading Site Wall Street Magnate Demystifies The Stock Market

Wall Street Magnate is a new site that opens the market to stock trading newbies. The fantasy trading community launched last month and is packed with real-time updates and data from all major U.S. stock exchanges. The site is designed to appeal to a wide variety of users, ranging from students who want to learn more about capital equities to traders testing out investment strategies.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ijhMBSgnzjQ/

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Pebble Smart Watch appears on Best Buy website

Pebble Smart Watch

While many Kickstarter backers are still be waiting to receive the Pebble Smart Watch they bought and paid for, the device itself is headed to Best Buy

We heard rumors last night that the Pebble Smart Watch would be headed to Best Buy, and today we know the whole story. The Bluetooth powered smart watch will indeed be sold at Best Buy, and be available in stores July 7. The black version (already on the Best Buy website) will be for sale at first, with cherry red coming later in August.

The wearable, which will cost $150, connects with your Android or iOS device through Bluetooth and offers an interface to things like text messages and incoming calls. There are also available programming interfaces so things can be extended, and we expect more than a few applications for the smart watch will become available once it reaches more hands. Being available over the counter at a big box store will help make that happen.

We've reached out to the folks behind the Pebble, asking how this news will affect the people still waiting for the product they bought through Kickstarter. While not being able to fill demand is a problem many companies would like to have, you never want to leave a bad impression on your early adopters.

I'll head over to my local Best Buy this Sunday and pick one of these up and see what the fuss is all about. What about you? Is the Pebble an accessory you're interested in using? Be sure to tell us the answer, and why you feel that way in the comments.

Source: Engadget

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/Z88YBOE6aPE/story01.htm

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Android 4.3 may let third-party apps take control of notifications

Now that a leaked build of Android 4.3 is in the wild, curious users have been poring over the code to see exactly what's new. Kevin from TeslaCoil Software may have found one of the first real gems: there's now a notification listening service under the hood. The feature would let third-party apps read notifications and perform common notification-level tasks. While we don't have new software to show exactly how the service will work, it's possible that future apps will have limited control over each other without relying on the hacks that we see today. We'll know the full story when Google makes Android 4.3 official -- whenever that is.

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